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574:"Boys and Girls of Yesterday and Today".
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556:"I Am Glad I Was Born When I Was".
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810:(Oxford, 1989), pp. 57–58.
405:"Trent and the Genuine Tabard".
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563:"Nazi Propaganda in Last War".
545:"The Lie as a Wartime Weapon".
413:(1938) as "The Genuine Tabard".
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475:"Two Machines and a Party".
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644:"Edmund Clerihew Bentley"
394:"Trent and the Bad Dog".
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912:Edmund Clerihew Bentley
703:Biography for Beginners
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606:(London), 21 June 1911.
599:(London), 10 June 1907.
581:"The Interesting Age".
484:"Hearst for Governor".
339:"The Clever Cockatoo".
195:Biography for Beginners
139:Edmund Clerihew Bentley
25:Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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171:Merton College, Oxford
89:Merton College, Oxford
534:"Next US President".
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276:was an illustrator.
208:His detective novel
161:Bentley was born in
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669:"Fleet Street Stir"
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565:The Daily Telegraph
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536:The Daily Telegraph
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429:The Strand Magazine
418:The Strand Magazine
407:The Strand Magazine
396:The Strand Magazine
385:The Strand Magazine
374:The Strand Magazine
363:The Strand Magazine
352:The Strand Magazine
341:The Strand Magazine
327:The Strand Magazine
282:Places in the Heart
257:omnibus edition of
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175:John Edmund Bentley
147:E. Clerihew Bentley
129:John Edmund Bentley
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361:"The Sweet Shot".
310:on 31 March 1953.
255:Constable & Co
203:Baseless Biography
191:James Louis Garvin
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